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Tennessee May Join North Carolina In Expanding School Choice

Tennessee lawmakers will vote Feb. 11 on the Tennessee Choice and Opportunity Scholarship Act, a law that would allow parents of low-income students to use up to $6,628 of public money to attend private school. The voucher system is similar to North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program, enacted in 2013 by the General Assembly. In contrast...

Kari Travis
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Dell Deal Oversold in Tennessee

RALEIGH — A special legislative session convenes today to vote on incentives to entice Dell Computer to build a plant in the Triad. But a similar incentives deal struck five years ago in Tennessee was sold to the public by exaggerating the benefits and underestimating the costs of incentives for a Dell plant. The difference between the initial, pro-incentives study and a later review was that the first one didn’t include indirect costs such as educating the children of Dell employees who are newcomers and providing those families with city services.” Because of tax rebates, these costs were covered not by Dell but by other companies and taxpayers in the area.

Paul Chesser

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